Slashgear
MAY 2, 2018
Facebook announced they’d be collaborating with RED Digital Cinema to create a 6DoF camera. That’s 6 degrees of freedom, a term which encapsulates the essence of the current must-have features for believable, usable virtual reality experiences. “Over the past year, we’ve worked to realize the next phase of our x6 and x24 6DoF capture prototypes and set out to find … Continue reading.
Road to VR
MAY 2, 2018
Oculus today at F8 overviewed some of the latest VR technology that they’d been working on internally. Among the projects mentioned is the ‘Half Dome’ prototype, a Rift-like headset with a 140 degree field of view, varifocal displays, and what appears to be eye-tracking. Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Head of Product Management, Core Tech at Oculus, revealed the Half Dome prototype after saying that her job is to help take the research that’s happening within the company and t
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VRScout
MAY 2, 2018
Zuckerberg uses his 2018 F8 conference to tease new AR functionality for its most popular apps. The mostly-annual F8 Developer Conference is a time when the company gathers creators and entrepreneurs dedicated to the Facebook platform in order to showcase its latest and greatest tools, products and secret new projects. This year Zuckerberg once again took to the stage to unveil a bevy of new information on the just-launched Oculus Go.
Tech Trends VR
MAY 2, 2018
The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. The European Patent Office (EPO) announced that it has nominated U.S.-based inventor Alex Kipman as a finalist for the European Inventor Award 2018. “Alex Kipman’s invention is a vision for the future of computing with the potential to change how we connect and collaborate,” said EPO President Benoît Battistelli.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.
VRScout
MAY 2, 2018
Netherlands-based theme park Efteling has created a VR experience of one of their popular non-accessible attractions — allowing disabled visitors to experience the roller coaster as their friends and family do. Droomvlucht, meaning “dream flight” in English, is a magical journey through the mystical realm of fairies and woodland creatures.
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Next Reality AR
MAY 2, 2018
Like Marvel's Avengers, Facebook's Camera AR platform now has a number of new AR superpowers at its disposal, so it is fitting that Earth's Mightiest Heroes have the distinction of displaying them. Available now in via Facebook on iOS and Android, the Avengers: Infinity War AR effects, represented by a cartoon Iron Man avatar, gives users a dozen new Marvel character-inspired AR effects.
Road to VR
MAY 2, 2018
Quill , Facebook’s VR painting and animation tool, is now getting a new and immersive avenue for sharing artwork created in the application. With today’s update, users can now share their artwork into Facebook Spaces , letting friends experience it together. Facebook VR artist Goro Fujita created a new short film animated in Quill and shared in Spaces as an example of the new capability.
Next Reality AR
MAY 2, 2018
We watched the first piece of public-facing content Magic Leap has released so you don't have to, and, well, you didn't miss much. To be fair, the company's new video show, called Magic Leap Live, isn't designed to entertain, rather it's meant to educate and inform developers who may be interested in developing for the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition.
Road to VR
MAY 2, 2018
At Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Oculus today announced it’s both overhauling and rebranding React VR, the company’s open-source JavaScript library that lets developers create cross-platform WebVR experiences. Now dubbed React 360 , the company says the framework now “provides clearer prioritization for our future roadmap.” Launched at last year’s F8, React VR was used to create web-based content for brands and intuitions such as National Geographic ,
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With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.
VeeR VR
MAY 2, 2018
Virtual reality is changing many industries around the world, and healthcare is one of the biggest adopters of VR encompassing surgery planning, phobia treatment, pain relief, robotic surgery, skills training, etc. VR allows healthcare professionals to learn new skills as well as refreshing existing ones in a safe environment. What ’s more, it allows a treatment planning without causing any danger to the patients.
Road to VR
MAY 2, 2018
Microsoft released its April Windows 10 update yesterday, and with it comes the official launch of SteamVR support for Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets. After launching in Early Access in November last year, which allowed users to provisionally play SteamVR games with Windows VR headsets, Microsoft has made the integration ready for prime time thanks to five months-worth of updates that the company says improve performance, stability, haptic feedback for motion controllers, and i
Road to VR
MAY 2, 2018
Beat Saber (2018) is finally here, the block-slicing rhythm game that puts two lightsabers in your hands and tasks you with using your Jedi powers to slice to the beat. Less than a day since release, one Twitch streamer has already modded his Oculus Touch controller to play Darth Maul-style, aka with a single double-bladed lightsaber. Twitch streamer ‘Ragesaq’ tends to play VR shooters— Hot Dogs, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Onward, BAM Royale – those sorts of things.
Road to VR
MAY 2, 2018
Oculus Go , the company’s $200 standalone VR headset, launched at Facebook’s F8 developer conference yesterday to much fanfare—likely because everyone in attendance got one free. Now that anyone can get their hands on one, Oculus founder and ex-employee Palmer Luckey took it upon himself to post a single image of the headset laid bare, revealing a few interesting bits including what might be a replaceable battery.
Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon
Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.
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